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  • Some Birds in South West Victoria

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    This is a continuation of our coastal trip in early December 2025. We ventured from Warrnambool towards Port Fairy for lunch. On the way we stopped off at Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve for a short break. Tower Hill is the remains of an extinct volcano, now a lake filled crater. If you want to know…

  • Sea Breezes in Warrnambool, Victoria.

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    The north east of Victoria is usually a pretty hot and dry place at this time of year. However there was a break of cooler weather around the 9-12th December, so we headed to the coast. We left the dry paddocks behind to find a bit of an oasis of green grass and cooler temperatures…

  • Water Bowl Memories

    Water Bowl Memories

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    Our backyard water bowls are a feature of our rather dry yard in summer with a range of visiting birds. Here is a mix of some recent attendees seeking a quiet place. Red-rumped Parrot visiting our large water bowl. The Red rump on this parrot is very apparent. We used to get good numbers of…

  • Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park is Wonderful in late Spring.

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    Hard going for this young eucalypt growing in a small crevice on this large granite outcrop at Mt Pilot. View from Mt Pilot, looking NW. There are large outcrops of granite across the Park. https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/chiltern-mt-pilot-national-park These images were taken in mid October in North East Victoria, Australia. The Park is a well known birding hotspot.…

  • Norfolk Island Trip Rap Up

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    Here is a snapshop of some images from our September 2025 visit. Our bird list was fairly limited. eBird records shows 132 species have been observed. We visited before the main migrating shorebirds, but we still saw lots of interesting new birds. The Island is an important stopover point on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway look…

  • Round 3 Norfolk Island a Bird Haven.

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    The Masked Booby influx was just beginning when we visited (3rd to 10th September 2025). This species is one of the first to arrive, on this occassion we were at Point Howe on the north eastern tip of the island. They just find a grassy patch and plonk down for a nest place. I joined…

  • Birdwatching in Winton Wetlands: Key Highlights and a few Species Sightings

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    We took a trip to Winton Wetlands recently to follow up on previous sitings of Swift Parrots. We returned to 11 Mile Creek Woodland (part of the Reserve) hoping to see them again, but they had moved on. There have been further reports of Swifts in the adjacent Warby Range National Park in recent days.…

  • Discover Winton Wetlands: 6th August 2025

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    This large area of public land at Winton, Victoria is managed by the Victorian Government for conservation purposes. The original Winton Swamp system made up of some 13 small wetland areas totalling about 7000Hectares was taken over by the state government in 1971 and flooded to create Lake Mokoan for a irrigation storage. This resulted…